After more than a month of consideration, Advance TAFE has revealed how changes to TAFE funding in Victoria will affect its programs and staff numbers.

Advance TAFE which covers an area east of the Latrobe Valley to the New South Wales border, is set to cut 32 staff positions, 36 courses and close eight outreach centres to meet the Coalition Government's funding requirements.

The TAFE's training restaurant in Sale will be sold as a going concern.

There are also fears for general support services, especially for students with disabilities, which will not be funded from 2013.

The cuts follow what has been a difficult fortnight for East Gippsland which felt the wrath of Mother Nature last week.

Communities are still cleaning up after storms and counting the cost of flood damage with initial estimates indicating a bill of $12 million in local government assets such as roads and bridges.

The Police and Emergency Services Minister Peter Ryan has announced a formal review into the response to the floods taking into account the work of the State Emergency Service and warning systems for townsfolk and landholders along river systems.

The review will be undertaken by the Office of the Emergency Services Commissioner.

Finally, East Gippsland Shire officers are set to meet with members of the Bairnsdale Motorsports Club who ripped up the town's drag strip.

The club missed out on a tender to operate the facility after more than 40 years at the site.

It was given the option to remove club infrastructure from the site and decided to take its most important asset, the track,

Members of the club involved in the action claim they were concerned about the legal liability of leaving the track to another club.